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Stirred to the Supreme by what has been told, a man must
strive to possess it directly; then he too will see, though still
unable to tell it as he would wish.
One seeing That as it really is will lay aside all reasoning upon
it and simply state it as the self-existent; such that if it had
essence that essence would be subject to it and, so to speak,
derived from it; none that has seen would dare to talk of its
"happening to be," or indeed be able to utter word. With all his
courage he would stand astounded, unable at any venture to speak
of This, with the vision everywhere before the eyes of the soul
so that, look where one may, there it is seen unless one
deliberately look away, ignoring God, thinking no more upon Him.
So we are to understand the Beyond-Essence darkly indicated by
the ancients: is not merely that He generated Essence but that He
is subject neither to Essence nor to Himself; His essence is not
His Principle; He is Principle to Essence and not for Himself did
He make it; producing it He left it outside of Himself: He had no
need of being who brought it to be. Thus His making of being is
no "action in accordance with His being."
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